目次
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
1 Introduction
1.1 The Minimalist Program: Overview and Guiding Principles
1.2 What Do we Have in Syntax?
1.3 Overview of the Thesis
2 Labeling Theory
2.1 The History of Generative Grammar as Reduction of Stipulations
2.1.1 On the Defi nition of Merge
2.1.2 On Move
2.2 Chomsky (2013, 2015)
2.2.1 The Architecture
2.2.2 Weakness of Weak Heads
2.3 Concluding Remarks
3 Theoretical Apparatus
3.1 Brief History of C-Command
3.2 Agreement Effect
3.2.1 Problems with Agree
3.2.2 Agreement without Agree
3.2.3 Interpretation by Contain
3.3 Immediately Contain
3.4 A-over-A Principle via Contain with Labels
3.4.1 A-over-A Principle
3.4.2 Label-Based A-over-A Principle
3.5 Concluding Remarks
4 Interlude: General Architecture
4.1 Elimination of the Notion of Weak Heads
4.2 T without [phi] and Language without [phi]
4.3 Concluding Remarks
5 Relative Clauses
5.1 Restrictive Relative Clauses
5.1.1 General Properties
5.1.2 Previous Analyses
5.1.3 The Puzzle
5.1.4 Theoretical Assumptions
5.1.4.1 Late Merge for Adjuncthood
5.1.4.2 Pair-Merge
5.1.5 The Derivations of RRCs
5.1.6 Part of Solution
5.2 Subject Contact Relatives and Anti-Locality
5.2.1 Restriction on Copy Identifi cation
5.2.1.1 Chomsky (2020a, b, 2021a)
5.2.1.2 Anti-Self-Merge
5.2.2 Subject Contact Relatives
5.2.3 Anti-Locality
5.2.3.1 Saito and Murasugi (1999)
5.2.3.2 Abels (2003)
5.2.3.3 Anti-Self-Merge Revisited
5.2.4 Summary of RRC
5.3 Non-Restrictive Relative Clauses
5.3.1 Introduction
5.3.2 Previous Analyses
5.3.2.1 Orphanage Analysis
5.3.2.2 Main Clause Analysis
5.3.2.3 LF Raising Analysis
5.3.2.4 Parenthetical-Merge Analysis
5.3.3 Epstein, Kitahara and Seely (2012, 2014)
5.3.4 Deduction of Invisibility from Counter-Cyclic Merge
5.3.5 Derivation of NRCs and their Invisibility/Independency
5.3.6 Implementation of Counter-Cyclic Merge into the Current Theory
5.3.7 Summary of NRC
5.4 Free Relatives
5.4.1 Introduction
5.4.2 Previous analyses
5.4.2.1 RRC Analysis
5.4.2.2 CP Analysis
5.4.2.3 (Re)labeling Analysis
5.4.3 Proposal
5.4.4 Summary of FRs
5.5 Head-Internal Relative Clauses
5.5.1 Introduction
5.5.2 HIRCs and their Kin
5.5.3 Kuroda (1999)
5.5.4 Hasegawa (2002)
5.5.4.1 Criticism of Kuroda (1999)
5.5.4.2 Hasegawa’s analysis
5.5.5 Proposal
5.5.6 Explaining Properties of HIRCs
5.5.6.1 Relevancy Condition
5.5.6.2 Other Properties
5.5.7 Contribution to English and General Framework
5.5.7.1 EPP
5.5.7.2 Apparent Problem
5.5.8 Summary of HIRCs
5.6 Concluding Remarks
Appendix: Split Antecedent in HIRCs
6 Interrogatives
6.1 Interrogatives in the Labeling Theory: Introduction
6.2 Wh Island
6.2.1 Issues on In-Situ Wh Operators
6.2.2 Wh Island
6.3 Effect on SM
6.3.1 Case Optionality
6.3.2 Go beyond Agree
6.3.3 Theoretical Implications
6.4 Interim Summary
6.5 Japanese
6.5.1 Basic Data
6.5.2 Prosody
6.5.3 (Well-Known) Misunderstanding in Japanese Wh Interrogatives
6.6 Concluding Remarks
Appendix: Alternative Analysis of Criterial Freezing
7 Conclusion
References
Index